... to distribute it etc. (I didn't do any of this well but I did do it.) The only issues to which Dorril contributed anything beyond writing articles and the occasional graphic were no 9, which he helped me paste up, and the Who's Who, whose text he provided. In the middle of our researching the Colin Wallace material (i .e . early 1986) Steve was offered the chance to go and work with Anthony Summers on what became the book Honeytrap - and more or less gave up on the Wallace-Holroyd material. I thus inherited his ongoing correspondence with Colin Wallace and Fred Holroyd and wrote Lobster 11 (Steve's research formed much of ...

... represents a magnificent revenge for [Rees-Jones and Wingfield]... ', saying that they'...deserted the cause of their former employer to prevent al-Fayed buying his version of history. ' In fact, he concludes, 'history owes Rees-Jones and Wingfield an enormous debt. ' According to Mike Wallace, who interviewed Rees-Jones on 60 Minutes,'.... he was offered a million bucks by The National Enquirer, turned it down; he was offered similar sums by various tabloids in England and turned it [sic] down. ' (Quoted on 'The Bodyguard's tale' - CBS News Website at: http ...

... to accept this in the face of increasing evidence. (12) Notes Barrie Penrose and Roger Courtier, The Pencourt File (London: Secker and Warburg, 1978). The revelations first appeared in the Observer during 1977. Peter Wright, Spycatcher (New York: Viking Penguin, 1987). See Paul Foot, Who Framed Colin Wallace? (London: Macmillan, 1988) and Stephen Dorril and Robin Ramsay, Smear: Wilson and the Secret State (London: Fourth Estate, 1991). These are still the fullest and best docu mented accounts of the Wilson plot. Like Hunt they point out that the Prime Minister was not the only target of the dirty ...

... . In individual articles this may not be noticed; but in book form Foot's clear, simple writing style is very striking. The articles come from mainstream media - the Guardian, London Review of Books and Private Eye - and a selection from the Socialist Workers' Party's publications. The subject matter ranges from major pieces about Lockerbie and Colin Wallace, a collection of savage attacks on the Blair crew, through individual scandals (notably his brilliant assault on Jeffrey Archer in the Evening Standard and his account of the destruction of the Daily Mirror) to little pieces about Foot's hero, Shelley. There isn't a dud among them. Last | Contents | Next ...

... offered us guns one week before the arms crisis blew up - and meetings with everyone from Jerry Rubin, Abbie Hoffman and SLA personnel. In addition we had talks with the Italian, German and French leftwingers and I can assure you that we never talked to the 'UCA' which existed only in the imagination of the Lisburn Disinf machine - Wallace and Railton. With regards to the BICOs, there were at most six of them and they did fuck all except produce a few slim pamphlets - 'two nations once again'. The only Officials who might have been involved with the UCA if it had existed were the element that went IRSP with Costello after the murder of Joe McCann ...

... supplying Coughlin with material for years. Leigh describes how, when Coughlin asked his source for evidence, he was shown but not allowed to copy documents. This is the classic IRD disinformation technique, described in use in Cyprus in the 1960s by Charles Foley in his book Legacy of Strife (2 ) and, more recently, by Colin Wallace working in Information Policy in Northern Ireland in the 1970s: show the dummies forgeries but don't let them take them out of the room Finding MI6 disinformation in the Sunday Telegraph will hardly come as a surprise to anyone who reads it, for it has been a leading purveyor of MI6 disinformation for many years. I began at one stage ...

... denouncing me; not that one MP in 50 would know what IRD was had he referred to it. That I am aware of, I have had two agents of the British secret state - from MI5, I presume - sicced onto me to pick my brains. This happened in 1987/8 when I was deeply embroiled with Colin Wallace and his story about anti-Labour hanky panky in Northern Ireland. I was on the phone to him every day and was talking to lots of journalists who were trying to understand his story. Wallace and I assumed our phones were tapped - though we never had any evidence of this; none of the noises, interference and fragments ...

... every six weeks. The minister and the MI6 officer traded information and contacts candidly about the Middle East as Aitken had maintained close contact with his Arab business associates. ' Ken Livingstone's questions Not mentioned by Hollingsworth in his piece about Parliament and spooks is the curious case of Ken Livingstone's parliamentary questions. In 1987/8 , fed by Colin Wallace and Fred Holroyd via Livingstone's then (unpaid) researcher Neil Grant, new (1987) MP Ken Livingstone put down hundreds of written questions in the House of Commons about the war in Northern Ireland, IRD, and the cases of Holroyd and Wallace. In Lobster this was discussed in issue 16 . But I also wrote about this ...

... be, for Airey Neave was Mrs Thatcher's closest advisor at the time and must have been involved in the extraordinary decision to go to the MI5 liaison and suggest that the former Prime Minister and/or his close advisors were enemy agents. Routledge does try to cover the 1974-77 period, 'private armies', Neave's contacts with Colin Wallace, Peter Wright and all, but doesn't do it very well or thoroughly enough. Either it was too complicated to handle properly in the time he had or Routledge doesn't quite take it seriously. The important part of Neave's career began with his organising Mrs Thatcher's victory over Edward Heath in the 1975 contest for the leadership of the Conservative ...